Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 3:42 PM UTC

light_hue_1 wrote: post #807

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #798

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a quite biased view. As a non-Chinese scientist, I can attest that there is intense pressure to publish as many papers as possible pretty much everywhere , and this leads to a problem of bad research across the world. China may be among the worst offenders in this respect, but the particular thing the OP is asking about doesn't strike me as a Chinese-specific thing at all. I see non-Chinese scientists rushing…

It's not biased, it's a fact. I see it all the time as PC/AC/reviwer/etc. There is deluge of terrible papers from China that are just a mess, below any imaginable standard. Ones that labs in the EU/US/Russia/Japan/etc. don't put out. Yes, everyone has to publish, and there are bad papers out there, but the volume and low quality from China is unmatched.

Post by ajani » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 3:45 PM UTC

nindalf wrote: post #267

someplaceguy wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would have been more convincing if you had given real past examples rather than speculative future ones :) Although I'm pretty sure there are plenty that many people can think of, so it doesn't really detract much from your point.

Auctions, sanitary towels, retirement, banking, disposable razor, sewing machine, canned food, interchangeable parts, antibiotics, solar cells, postage stamp, light bulb, pencil, air conditioning, insurance, dwarf wheat, spreadsheet, cold chain, double entry book-keeping, S-bend, infant formula, clocks, public key cryptography, passports, batteries, printing press, video games, GPS, contraceptive pill, shipping conta…

Post by jacquesm » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

dclowd9901 wrote: post #786

crote wrote: post #458

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The conductors of your ohmmeter are not that important, though. You can work around that by using four-terminal sensing, and you can of course also calibrate your probes by directly touching them together. Even if your ohmmeter conductors have a resistance of several ohm, you could still get an accurate measurement if your tool has a high enough resolution. A bigger issue is going to be sample size. A 1mm-diameter 1m…

How about the wires connected to your probes? Or the internal electronics that are used to gauge resistance? How do you work around those?

Post by calf » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 3:54 PM UTC

senttoschool wrote: post #820

jacquesm wrote: post #802

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, good points though the money angle is debatable. The USA and Europe are 'on average' also more pro-science than the rest of the world, but I think the East has the edge in education and comes across as more focused on progress. Probably this is underpinned in part because they have a ton of very hard problems that need solving and in the 'rich West' people are much less driven because their lives and the lives o…

One difference I’ve found living in the West and China is that being academically successful often gets you made fun of in the US but adored in China. There’s quite a lot of anti-intellectualism in the US. Therefore, there’s an equal amount of anti-science. Meanwhile, every Chinese I’ve ever met is pro-education and thinks highly of science.

Post by rtsil » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 3:59 PM UTC

httpz wrote: post #601

mrtksn wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things also tend to be invented at about the same time at different places. I wonder if there are other people who were this close to invent it but just couldn't get it right.

Apparently the theory behind LK-99 was inspired by the studies from Eastern European scientists. However, after the Soviet collapse, the study was lost.